The people who were the most frightened may have been the players, who stayed on the field when the place was plunged into darkness at 6:12 p.m. and the game was delayed 15 minutes.

"It was scary," defensive end Osi Umenyiora said. "In this day and age, you never know what could have been happening."

"I just sat on the bench and was trying to be still like my mom was always telling me when there was thunder and lightning," Justin Tuck said.

Wide receiver Mario Manningham said he put his helmet back on during the blackout. "I didn't want to get hit with anything," Manningham said. "It was crazy."

Although there was at least one fight during the blackout, Giants officials said the number of incidents involving security was about "average for a Giants-Cowboys game," according to the New York Daily News.

I think is funny that these big bad men turn into little girls when the lights go out just like everyone else does! It would have been so easy for these guys to blow it off and say it wasnt anything but to admit like Tuck did that he did what his mom always told him to do was funny, kudos to him for not worrying about his ego!

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